The Inn At Lake Devine

Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-08-02
ISBN : 0755385101
Pages : 220 pages
Rating Book: 4.5/5 (755 users)

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Download or read book The Inn At Lake Devine written by Elinor Lipman and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1962 and Natalie Marx is shocked when her mother receives this reply to her enquiry about summer accommodation in Vermont: 'Our guests who feel most comfortable here, and return year after year, are Gentiles.' It was not complicated, as her mother pointed out. 'They had a hotel; they didn't want Jews. We were Jews.' For the intrepid twelve-year-old Natalie, the words are an infuriating, irresistible challenge. She manages to wangle an invitation to join a friend on holiday there - and, as her obsession begins with the family that has excluded her, she sets in train events which will change her life, and which will tie her forever to the eccentric family who run the Inn at Lake Devine

The Inn at Lake Devine

by Elinor Lipman

Publisher : Vintage
Release Date : 2012-05-23
ISBN : 0307814211
Pages : 272 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (37 users)

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Download or read book The Inn at Lake Devine written by Elinor Lipman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was not complicated, and, as my mother pointed out, not even personal: They had a hotel; they didn't want Jews; we were Jews...It's the early 1960s and Natalie Marx is stunned when her mother inquires about vacation accommodations in Vermont and receives a response that says, "The Inn at Lake Devine is a family-owned resort, which has been in continuous operation since 1922. Our guests who feel most comfortable here, and return year after year, are Gentiles." So begins Natalie's fixation with the Inn and the family who owns it. And when Natalie finagles an invitation to join a friend on vacation there, she sets herself upon a path that will inextricably link her adult life into this peculiar family and their once-restricted hotel. The Inn at Lake Devine will enchant readers with the beguiling voice, elegant charm, and deft storytelling that have been hallmarks of Elinor Lipman's previous novels and have made her beloved by her fans. Her characters sparkle on the page and delight us with their wit and grace--even when anti-Semitism rears its head in Vermont and the tables are turned in the Catskills. Elinor Lipman is the undisputed master of the art of screwball comedy.

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Release Date : 1998-05-20
ISBN : 9780676545302
Pages : pages
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Download or read book Inn at Lake Devine, 49%, 120 Day Dating written by and published by . This book was released on 1998-05-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Release Date : 1998-05-20
ISBN : 9780676545296
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In the Catskills

by Phil Brown

Publisher : Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2004-04-21
ISBN : 0231504403
Pages : 436 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (231 users)

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Download or read book In the Catskills written by Phil Brown and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-21 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A nostalgic pastiche of fiction, memoir, photography, art, postcards, menus, etc., celebrating Jewish resort life in the Catskills.”—Providence Journal With selections ranging from literature to song lyrics, this book highlights the Catskills experience over a century, and assesses its continuing impact on American music, comedy, food, culture, and religion. It features selections from such fiction writers as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Herman Wouk, Allegra Goodman and Vivian Gornick; and original contributions from historians, sociologists, and scholars of American and Jewish culture that trace the history of the region, the rise of hotels and bungalow colonies, the wonderful flavors of food and entertainment, and distinctive forms of Jewish religion found in the Mountains. What was life—the work, the play, the food, the romance—like at Catskills Mountains resorts? These very personal recollections capture the special sense of community and freedom that developed among Jewish families leaving the city behind for a summer vacation and enjoying a cultural space of their own. From “Bingo by the Bungalow” by Thane Rosenbaum to “Young Workers in the Hotels” by Phil Brown to “Shoot the Shtrudel to Me Yudel” by Henry Foner, this charming anthology captures an era that has had enormous impact on the Jewish experience and American culture as a whole. “A warm, charming, and valuable work. Much of the writing is simply gorgeous.”—Contemporary Sociology

Now Read this II

by Nancy Pearl

Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Release Date : 2002
ISBN : 9781563088674
Pages : 324 pages
Rating Book: 4.8/5 (88 users)

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Download or read book Now Read this II written by Nancy Pearl and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotated list of more than 500 titles (400 of which are new to this vol.) categorized by setting, story, characterization, or language.

I Can't Complain

by Elinor Lipman

Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2013
ISBN : 054757620X
Pages : 179 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (547 users)

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Download or read book I Can't Complain written by Elinor Lipman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal collection of essays describes the author's forays into online dating, widowhood, and caring for her elderly parents.

Representations of Anne Frank in American Literature

by Rachael McLennan

Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2016-08-05
ISBN : 1317932595
Pages : 242 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (317 users)

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Download or read book Representations of Anne Frank in American Literature written by Rachael McLennan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores portrayals of Anne Frank in American literature, where she is often invoked, if problematically, as a means of encouraging readers to think widely about persecution, genocide, and victimisation; often in relation to gender, ethnicity, and race. It shows how literary representations of Anne Frank in America over the past 50 years reflect the continued dominance of the American dramatic adaptations of Frank’s Diary in the 1950s, and argues that authors feel compelled to engage with the problematic elements of these adaptations and their iconic power. At the same time, though, literary representations of Frank are associated with the adaptations; critics often assume that these texts unquestioningly perpetuate the problems with the adaptations. This is not true. This book examines how American authors represent Frank in order to negotiate difficult questions relating to representation of the Holocaust in America, and in order to consider gender, coming of age, and forms of inequality in American culture in various historical moments; and of course, to consider the ways Frank herself is represented in America. This book argues that the most compelling representations of Frank in American literature are alert to their own limitations, and may caution against making Frank a universal symbol of goodness or setting up too easy identifications with her. It will be of great interest to researchers and students of Frank, the Holocaust in American fiction and culture, gender studies, life writing, young adult fiction, and ethics.

The Ladies' Man

by Elinor Lipman

Publisher : Vintage
Release Date : 2011-12-21
ISBN : 030781422X
Pages : 272 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (37 users)

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Download or read book The Ladies' Man written by Elinor Lipman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Inn at Lake Devine ("Rivals her own best work for its understanding of the way smart, opinionated people stumble toward happiness"--Glamour) and Isabel's Bed ("It's Fannie Farmer for the soul . . . delivered in a delicious style that is both funny and elegant"--USA Today) comes a darkly romantic comedy of manners that confirms Elinor Lipman's appointment to the Jane Austen chair in modern American sensibility. Thirty unmarried years have passed since the barely suitable Harvey Nash failed to show up at a grand Boston hotel for his own engagement party. Today, the near-bride, Adele Dobbin, and her two sisters, Lois and Kathleen, blame Harvey for what unkind relatives call their spinsterhood, and what potential beaus might characterize as a leery, united front. The doorbell rings one cold April night. Harvey Nash, older, filled with regrets (sort of), more charming and arousable than ever, just in from the Coast, where he's reinvented himself as Nash Harvey, jingle composer and chronic bachelor, has returned to the scene of his first romantic crime. Despite the sisters' scars and grudges, despite his platinum tongue and roving eye, this old flame becomes an improbable catalyst for the untried and the long overdue. The refined and level-headed Adele finds herself flirting with her boss--on public television. Entrepreneurial Kathleen is suddenly drinking cappuccino with Lorenz, the handsome doorman at the luxury high-rise where she owns a lingerie boutique. And Lois, the only sister to have embarked on the road to matrimony and, subsequently, divorce, revives her long-cherished notion that Harvey abandoned Adele rather than indulge his preference for another Dobbin. Both comic and compassionate, The Ladies' Man has all of Lipman's trademark wit, wattage, and social mischief--with an extra bite.

Then She Found Me

by Elinor Lipman

Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-12-04
ISBN : 147222728X
Pages : 320 pages
Rating Book: 4.7/5 (472 users)

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Download or read book Then She Found Me written by Elinor Lipman and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Elinor Lipman's funniest and most entertaining novels. Given up for adoption thirty-six years ago, April Epner, now a quiet-living, sensible-jumper-wearing Latin teacher, has never had the slightest desire to be reunited with her biological mother. But, as it turns out, she doesn't have a choice. When Bernice Graverman, the brash, glamorous host of a mildly successful daytime TV talk show, flounces into her life claiming to be her mother, April is horrified: can she and this woman really share the same genes? Worse still, Bernice seems determined to take up her maternal role where she left off. Her first task: to tackle April's non-existent love life

Something to Talk About

by Ann-Marie Cyr

Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2006-08-02
ISBN : 1461671256
Pages : 134 pages
Rating Book: 4.6/5 (461 users)

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Download or read book Something to Talk About written by Ann-Marie Cyr and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006-08-02 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to focus solely on booktalking to adults. Here is an instruction manual and a material sourcebook in one; providing the reader with both step-by-step instructions on how to write a booktalk and 88 samples to use when creating a booktalk program for an adult audience.

American Historical Fiction

by Lynda G. Adamson

Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date : 1999
ISBN : 1573560677
Pages : 416 pages
Rating Book: 4.7/5 (573 users)

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Download or read book American Historical Fiction written by Lynda G. Adamson and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 1999 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Organized by time period, the entries include author, title, date of publication, number of pages, content notes, setting, main characters, and, where applicable, genres, awards, and series/sequel information ... This work should be a boon to reader's advisory and collection development librarians needing to build specific areas of the collection." Libr J.

American Jewish Fiction

by Josh Lambert

Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Release Date : 2010-01-01
ISBN : 0827610025
Pages : 223 pages
Rating Book: 4.2/5 (827 users)

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Download or read book American Jewish Fiction written by Josh Lambert and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume in the JPS Guides series is a fiction reader?s dream: a guide to 125 remarkable works of fiction. The selection includes a wide range of classic American Jewish novels and story collections, from 1867 to the present, selected by the author in consultation with a panel of literary scholars and book industry professionals. Roth, Mailer, Kellerman, Chabon, Ozick, Heller, and dozens of other celebrated writers are here, with their most notable works. Each entry includes a book summary, with historical context and background on the author. Suggestions for further reading point to other books that match readers? interests and favorite writers. And the introduction is a fascinating exploration of the history of and important themes in American Jewish Fiction, illustrating how Jewish writing in the U.S. has been in constant dialogue with popular entertainment and intellectual life. Included in this guide are lists of book award winners; recommended anthologies; title, author, and subject indexes; and more.

Tweet Land of Liberty

by Elinor Lipman

Publisher : Beacon Press
Release Date : 2012-08-28
ISBN : 0807042447
Pages : 120 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (87 users)

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Download or read book Tweet Land of Liberty written by Elinor Lipman and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elinor Lipman (@elinorlipman) chronicles the 2012 election season with a poem a day—all in 140 characters or less.

Rachel to the Rescue

by Elinor Lipman

Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2021
ISBN : 0358653258
Pages : 307 pages
Rating Book: 4.5/5 (358 users)

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Download or read book Rachel to the Rescue written by Elinor Lipman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2021 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel Klein is sacked from her job at the White House after she sends an email criticizing Donald Trump. As she is escorted off the premises she is hit by a speeding car, driven by what the press will discreetly call "a personal friend of the President." Does that explain the flowers, the get-well wishes at a press briefing, the hush money offered by a lawyer at her hospital bedside? Rachel's recovery is soothed by comically doting parents, matchmaking room-mates, a new job as aide to a journalist whose books aim to defame the President, and unexpected love at the local wine store. But secrets leak, and Rachel's new-found happiness has to make room for more than a little chaos. Will she bring down the President? Or will he manage to do that all by himself? Rachel to the Rescue is a mischievous political satire, with a delightful cast of characters, from one of America's funniest novelists.

The Dearly Departed

by Elinor Lipman

Publisher : Vintage
Release Date : 2002-08-13
ISBN : 140003325X
Pages : 288 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (4 users)

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Download or read book The Dearly Departed written by Elinor Lipman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-08-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her trademark humor and warmth, the beloved author of The Ladies' Man and The Inn at Lake Devine explores going home again; about finding light in the dark corners of one's inhospitable past; about love, golf, and DNA. Everyone in King George, New Hampshire, loved Margaret Batten, part-time amateur actress, full-time wallflower, and single mother to a now-distant daughter, Sunny. But accidents happen. The death of Margaret, side by side with her putative fiancé, brings Sunny back to the scene of the unhappy adolescence she thought she’d left behind. Reentry is to be dreaded; there’s no hiding in a town with one diner, one doctor, one stop sign, one motel. Yet allies surface; even high school tormentors have grown up in unforeseen and gratifying ways. Just possibly, Sunny begins to think, she wasn’t as beleaguered as she felt she was. And maybe her mother’s life was richer than anyone suspected. Add to the mix a chief of police whose interest in Sunny exceeds his civic duty, and you have the makings of an irresistibly beguiling tale from an author who writes with all the wit and wry authority of a latter-day Jane Austen.

Isabel's Bed

by Elinor Lipman

Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-12-14
ISBN : 9781439122044
Pages : 400 pages
Rating Book: 4.2/5 (122 users)

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Download or read book Isabel's Bed written by Elinor Lipman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Harriet Mahoney first sees it, Isabel Krug's bed is covered with sheared sheep and littered with celebrity biographies. Unpublished, fortyish, and recently jilted, Harriet has fled Manhattan for Isabel's loudly elegant Cape Cod retreat, where she will ghostwrite The Isabel Krug Story, based on the sexy blond's scandalous tabloid past. Unusually "talented" in the man department ("I give lessons"), Isabel revamps and inspires Harriet as they gear up to tell all, including the tangled history Isabel shares with her odd lodger, Costas. Life according to Isabel is a nonstop soap opera extravaganza, an experience to be swallowed whole -- and the attitude is catching....